over here, we have margaret chase smith, who is tending flowers. and she has a wonderful fascinating, long career. this is a gallery pass signed by margaret chase smith in 1941. gallery passes were often collected as souvenirs of trips to the capitol. and this was perhaps someone from maine visiting and would have been signed by one of the few women in congress at the time. >> this is a transitional time. margaret chase smith embodies that. women in congress in the 1940's and 1950's, as a group they are serving in apprenticeship. -- an apprenticeship. they are slowly working their way into positions of influence and seniority. they are getting better committee assignments. they are serving longer careers. by the end of this period, some of them are moving into leadership positions or at least further up the leadership rung. so, margaret chase smith, she comes into the house, she succeeds her husband who passes away in the 1940's. she serves in the house for about nine years. she has a very influential career. she manages to get on the naval affairs

and she sees herself as a model of following in margaret chase smith's footsteps, her opponent in the current senate race, very heated senate raise in maine doesn't do that and everything is using the margaret chase smith model saying rather than looking at her as susan collins role model as saying you have let down margaret chase smith and who she has or not to the voters in maine will decide. >> that was a very political answer, my friend. and -- but i honor your reference there because i think the documents you got from those hearings, the materials that you got access to, was incredible. you brought out a lot of new material as regards joe mccarthy. >> so, i was really lucky to have that material and john you know from knowing be a bit it wasn't because of was charming that i got that material. i think that in terms of the wonderful marquette files, the reason they opened them up were two reasons. one is i was enough of a pest that the only way to get rid of me may have been to init and the other was i had an incredibly important ally, greta van susteren, and the tv -- the

jesse sumner is on the phone taking care of business but over here margaret chase smith, tending some flowers and she has a wonderful, fascinating long career. this is a visitor pass, a gallery pass, signed by margaret chase smith in 1941. gallery passes were often collected as souvenirs of trips to the capitol and this was perhaps someone from maine visiting and would have been signed by one of the few women in congress at the time. >> farar mentioned this is a transitional time period and margaret chase smith really kind of embodies that. women in congress in the 1940s and 1950s, as a group, they're really kind of serving an apprenticeship. they are slowly working their way into positions of influence and seniority, getting better committee assignments, serving longer careers. some of them are moving into leadership positions or at least further up the leadership rung. margaret chase smith, she comes into the house via the widow's mandate and succeeds her husband clyde who passes away in 1940 and there's a special election that's held. she serves in the house for about nine years an

and sees herself as a model of following in margaret smith's footsteps.her opponent in the senate race doesn't do that and everybody is using the model >> host: i think the documents -- >> guest: you know that it is charming in terms of the wonderful titles is an incredible ally and the wonderful tv personality. they were extraordinary in helping me make up those documents and i think that they were as surprised as i was that i got the access to. they are now back under lock and key again. >> host: but you wrote the hell out of them. >> guest: i appreciat >> guest: i appreciate you saying that. thank you. >> host: looking at the hearings i know we could go through chapter and verse. what was the most striking thing that we learned looking at the documents? >> guest: normally be expected with position to be more outrageous when the cameras are there watching what they are doing and when they go in closed session nobody's watching so you can be reasonable. joe mccarthy flipped the script. he was more reasonable than his public hearings, which is a sign sinc

elliott using artifacts and photographs from the election of jeanette ranking to stories about margaret smithclair booth, and lindy vosz. watch on c-span3. >>> up next on american history tv, robert merry, former ceo of congressional requestl congressional quarterly. recalls the presidency of william mckinley. this is just over an hour. ♪

take margaret chase smith. when the men were terrified of joseph mccarthy, she called the net. just like susan collins stands of the donald trump. wait. susan collins never stands at the donald trump. that's why made is done with her weakness and excuses. collins isn't an independent, she is a fraud. mitch mcconnell and donald trump controller voice. she makes excuses for corruption, criminality, cruelty, all while pretending she is worried, concerned, hoping donald trump learns a lesson this time. he never does because she never speaks out, never does what i

take margaret chase smith. when the men were terrified of joseph mccarthy, she called the net. just like susan collins stands of the donald trump. wait. susan collins never stands at the donald trump. that's why made is done with her weakness and excuses. collins isn't an independent, she is a fraud. mitch mcconnell and donald trump controller voice. she makes excuses for corruption, criminality, cruelty, all while pretending she is worried, concerned, hoping donald trump learns a lesson this time. he never does because she never speaks out, never does what i

she's taking care of business, but over here we have met margaret chase smith.she has a wonderful fascinating career. this is a visitor, pass a gallery passed signed by march a smith 1941. gallery passes were often collected as souvenirs to trips to the capital this is prop somebody from maine visiting. who would've been signed by one of the few women in congress at this time. >> as you mention this is a transitional period margaret chase smith kind of embodies that. women in congress in the 19 forties the 19 fifties, as a group they're really kind of serving and apprenticeship. they are slowly working away into positions of influence, and authority. they're serving longer careers, by the end of this period some of them are moving into leadership additions or at least further up the leadership wrong. market chase smith, she comes in the house under widow's mandate, she succeeds her husband has been clyde. he passed away 1914 years special election itself. she serves in the house for about nine years and she has a very influential career. she manages to get on th

matthew wasniewski and farrah elliot, using photographs of jeannette rankin to stories about margaret smith and lindsay box. watch american tv this weekend on c-span3. >> annette gordon-reed talks about her biography of the 17th president, andrew johnson, who took office after president lincoln's assassination. she argues he was unable to provide leadership to a nation still recovering from the civil war. this was recorded at the philadelphia free library. it's about an hour. >> thank you very much. it's wonderful to be here again. i love this venue. i get lots of good questions, which we will save time for at the end. this is an interesting occasion for me. this is actually the first time i have been in front of an audience talking about andrew johnson. forgive me if i say jefferson occasionally. i had to write that when i was writing. i did a spell check to make sure i didn't have jefferson in there when i should have had johnson because the temptation was quite great. if somebody had told me a

american artifacts, a look at women, using artifacts from the selection in 1917 to stories about margaret j. smith claire booth a booth. watch this weekend on c-span3. >> historian margaret mcmillin is the author of paris, 1919, six months that changed the world. next she examines the 1919 paris peace conference which sought to hammer out a peace treaty for world war i and the difficulties in reaching an agreement that satisfied all participating nations' territorial claims and adequately punish germany for its war-time actions. the world war i museum hosted the talk as part of the annual symposium last november.

elliott using artifacts and photographs from the election of jeanette ranking to stories about margaret smith, clair booth, and lindy vosz. watch on c-span3. >>> up next on american history tv, robert merry, former ceo of congressional requestl congressional quarterly. recalls the presidency of william mckinley. this is just over an hour. ♪ [ applause ] >>> so, good evening, ladies and gentlemen. well m coto the kansas city public library. robert merry, this is his second presentation in the somewhat hallowed halls of the library, five star library this week from "library journal." thank you. he has a master's degree from columbia university school of journalism. he's been a reporter from the observe, the walt walt journal, managing editor and editor in chief of "congressional quarterly" and more recently the american conservative. he says it's collab la tif but it sounds like robert merry. we believe in constitutional government, fiscal prudence, sound monetary patrol si, delineated borders, authentically free markets, and restraint in foreign policy mixed with diplomatic acuity. we adhere t

take margaret chase smith. when the men were terrified of joseph mccarthy, she called the net.ust like susan collins stands of the donald trump. wait. susan collins never stands at the donald trump. that's why made is done with her weakness and excuses. collins isn't an independent, she is a fraud. mitch mcconnell and donald trump controller voice. she makes excuses for corruption, criminality, cruelty, all while pretending she is worried, concerned, hoping donald trump learns a lesson this time. he never does because she never speaks out, never does what i maine leader should do. susan collins doesn't work for maine, she works for them. and maine deserves a leader, not a trump stooge. that was an ad from the lincoln project in this ad from senator susan collins responding to recent attacks on her. >> my opponents say i've changed. i haven't, but politics sure has. false attacks against me began more than a year ago. especially offensive are the outrageous attacks on my integrity, the suggestion that i traded my votes for campaign contributions is appalling. it never happened,

take margaret chase smith when the men in the senate were terrified, she called them out, just like susan collins stands up to donald trump. oh, wait, susan collins never stands up to donald trump. that's why maine is done with her weakness and excuses. collins isn't an independent. she's a fraud. mitch mcconnell and donald trump control her voice. she makes excuses for corruption, for criminality, all while friending she's worried, concerned, hoping donald trump learns a lesson this time. he never does e because she never stands up, never speaks out, never does what a maine loader should do. she doesn't work for maine. she works for them. and maine deserves a leader, not a trump stuj. it's time for susan collins to go. >> the ad by the lincoln group, the lincoln project, what is your -- they initially were ads against the president, criticizing the president. they've dived now into the senate races. what's your take? >> so, this is probably one of the bigger changes from 2016. in 2016, we did see republicans deflect from the party. we saw republicans say that they would not vote for trum

take margaret chase smith, when the men were terrified of joseph mccarthy, she called him out like susan collins stands up to donald trump. wait, susan collins never stands up to donald trump. that's why maine is done with her weakness and excuses. collins isn't an independent, she's a fraud. mitch mcconnell and donald trump control her voice. she makes excuses for corruption, for criminality, for cruelty all while pretending while she's worried, concerned, hoping donald trump learns a lesson this time. he never does because she never stands up, never speaks out. never does what a maine leader should do. susan collins doesn't work for maine, she works for them and maine deserve as leader, not a trump stooge. it's time for susan collins to go. the lincoln project is responsible for the content of advertising. host: the ad by the lincoln group, the lincoln project, there were initially ads against the president. they've dived now into the senate races, what's your take? guest: this is probably the biggest changes in 2016. in 2016 we did see republicans deflect from the party. the republica

of course i think of margaret chase smith and maine. i want to mention a little known woman, the first jewish congresswoman in the country was florence florence prague cotton who is a widow from san francisco but who became the go-to person in congress for the business community of san francisco. one piece i can't recall off the top of my head the exact specifics but at one point, she carried legislation on behalf of the immigration of chinese women. so it was a very progressive thing to do and i was on behalf of women. fact that now republican women are not seen as carriers of much legislation of value is not necessarily the way it's been through american history. >> i think there are things that we just don't know yet because they have to play out. the biggest thing i see i think we should look at is the way role of money in. media historically, for women politicians making them ask raising the money. why should i invest in the? are you gonna win? having that confidence to make that ask. even barbara jordan had problems with that it's

whereas the wonderful margaret j. smith had told one of my coauthors i was never a woman candidate. and in her memoir jerry furoaro said that in 1984 she was embarrassed at telling her aides she needed a haircut, and now in 1990 we defy gravity. so we started thinking about the different aspects of running as a woman. i mean you look at pictures of the early women and i don't want to denigrate them because they made some wonderful contributions, but they all look like hundrederary men. they're wearing dark suits, and that's what struck me so much about 2018. these are not hundrederary men who got elected. i mean alexandria ocasio-cortez is only the most well publicized. there are certainly many other women with a range of self-presentations. one is she presented herself as an honorary man and/or play down her gender, does she try to mobilize women voters, and three, does she advocate public policy needed by women? and so those were the things that we were looking for. and i want to now explain what we identified as ipdicators of change that we identified back in 1991. but before tha

whereas the wonderful margaret j. smith had told one of my co-authors, i was never a woman candidate. and in her memoir, geraldine ferraro was embarrassed about telling her aides that she needed a haircut. now in 1990, we defy gravity. so we started thinking about the different aspects of running as a woman. one, you look at pictures of the early women and i don't want to denigrate them because they made some wonderful contributions. but they all looked like honorary men. they're wearing dark suits and that's what struck me so much about 2018. these are not honorary men who got elected. alexandra ocasio-cortez is the most well publicized but there are many with a range of self-presentations. does she present herself as an hon honorary man? does he try to mobilize women voters? and does she advocate public policy needed by women? z and so those were the things we were looking for. and i want to now explain what we identified as indicators of change that we identified back in 1991. but before that, i should say, one interesti

using artifacts and photographs from the election of jeanette rankin from 1917 to stories about margaret j. smith, and lindsey boggs. watch american history tv this weekend on c-span3. >>> up next on history bookshelf, historians david and jeanne heidler talk about their book "the rise of andrew jackson: myth, manipulation, and the making of modern politics yts" in which they examine how andrew jackson was elected president. we recorded their ra

using artifacts and photographs from the election of jeanette rankin from 1917 to stories about margaret j. smith, and lindsey boggs. watch american history tv this weekend on c-span3. >>> up next on history bookshelf, historians david and jeanne heidler talk about their book "the rise of andrew jackson: myth, manipulation, and the making of modern politics yts" in which they examine how andrew jackson was elected president. we recorded their remarks at the u.s. capital historical society in 2018. >> i'm going to go ahead and start stuff. excuse me, welcome to our latest lunchtime lecture. i'm chief historian here with the u.s. capital historical society. welcome. i'm really pleased today to introduce you, if you don't already know, jeanne and david heidler. they've been speakers before for their book on george washington's circle, and today we're really honored that we're one day in to the official existence of their latest book on andrew jackson "the rise of andrew jackson" was just released officially yesterday, so we're at the threshold of greatness here with the book, and i hope you all cons

curator using artifacts and paragraphs from the election of jeanette rankin to stories about margaret chase smith, claire booth louis and lindy bogs. watch american history tv on c-span. >>> chad williams is the author of "torchbearers of democracy: african-american soldiers in the world war i era." next he talks about the postwar activism of the soldiers explaining how after fighting for the idea of democracy abroad, many returned to join movement aimed at secures more rights and better social standing for african-americans here at home. the national world war i museum and memorial in kansas city, missouri, taped this event in november

but i wish that there had been more like margaret chase smith who was the first republican senator toke out against joe mccarthy back in the early '50s. you know, where is that kind of leadership? and it really saddens me that it seems to be absent. >> madam secretary, it's nicole wallace. thank you for spending time with us. >> hi, nicole. >> i want to pick up on joy's line of questioning. today 73 security advisers, many of whom i'm sure you worked with when you were secretary of state and when you were in the senate, donald trump's former secretary of defense has likened donald trump to the divisiveness of the nazis. his former secretary of the state called him a bleeping moron. everyone that has been around donald trump as commander in chief has left alarmed. even john bolton called him unfit. how do you take that argument to the country that isn't used to making national security decisions, that's maybe scraping through with the pandemic and with job insecurity, even food insecurity. how do you take those issues that you know are so vital that anyone that worked in government jus

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when someone reads about margaret chase smith and says that's what i willwh do somebody in the government right now it will happen out of the necessity to survive we will expect that. >> i believe and you write we are centrist nation basically a country where 30 or 40 or 50 percent of the people are in the middle and want government to get something done. we ain't doing it. >> that doesn't mean we won't. we have come through very hard times and baffling times and pessimistic times. and inappropriate behavior with the part of leadership but we have come to thembu all and very often when we do come through these difficult times the dark clouded sky times, we were better off for having done it. people talk about it was a simpler time. no itt wasn't. it never wise. that things have never been so bad or foreboding. yes they have. if you don't understand that then you don't understand the reality of ourth story. i like to point out the influenza epidemic which my parents and your parents went through in 1,918,500,000 americans died of that disease they didn't know where it came from, if it woul

american artifacts, a look at women, using artifacts from the selection in 1917 to stories about margaret j. smith, claire booth a booth. watch this weekend on c-span3. >> historian margaret mcmillin is the author of paris, 1919, six months that changed the world. next she examines the 1919 paris peace conference which sought to hammer out a peace treaty for world war i and the difficulties in reaching an agreement that satisfied all participating nations' territorial claims and adequately punish germany for its war-time actions. the world war i museum hosted the talk as part of the annual symposium last november. >> good evening, ladies and gentlemen. what a day. a terrific event that we've had so far and thank you for being with us and i know there's a lot of excitement and thank you for taking time to be here. we are so delighted to have professor margaret mcmillin with us, and it really is a delight. thank you so much for traveling to be with us in this important conversation and who else but to help us with that is better equipped than margaret mcmillin an emeritus professor at oxford and pro

so in the first speech in the book from 1989 you quote margaret smith from maine who has the guts toebuke joe mccarthy and said i don't want to see the republican party ride to political victory with fear and ignorance and bigotry and sneer. that is the interesting word. why did you think that? >> [laughter] >> it be perfect if only you had a sense of humor. [laughter] >> can you imagine somebody reading that. >> wouldn't that be wonderful? and she's a woman in most have no idea one of the most admirable political figures we've ever had. >> and not many republicans are standing up now? >> not enough. >> 19981 of the original signers of the declaration he said, i include candor and gentleness and disposition to speak with civility and attention to everybody and then you added words to the wise then but perhaps in our own day more than ever. >> one of my favorite characters from my m past as a remarkable man someone who is interested in almost everything and the accomplish physician and one of the first people to encourage the humane treatment of mental illness not just put them away i

take margaret chase smith. when the men were terrified of joseph mccarthy, she called the net.t like susan collins stands of the donald trump. wait. susan collins never stands at the donald trump. that's why made is done with her weakness and excuses. collins isn't an independent, she is a fraud. mitch mcconnell and donald trump controller voice. she makes excuses for corruption, criminality, cruelty, all while pretending she is worried, concerned, hoping donald trump learns a lesson this time. he never does because she never speaks out, never does what i maine leader should do. susan collins doesn't work for maine, she works for them. and maine deserves a leader, not a trump stooge. that was an ad from the lincoln project in this ad from senator susan collins responding to recent attacks on her. >> my opponents say i've changed. i haven't, but politics sure has. false attacks against me began more than a year ago. especially offensive are the outrageous attacks on my integrity, the suggestion that i traded my votes for campaign contributions is appalling. it never happened, no

take margaret chase smith, when the men were terrified of joseph mccarthy, she called him out like susanlins stands up to donald trump. wait, susan collins never stands up to donald trump. that's why maine is done with her weakness and excuses. collins isn't an independent, she's a fraud. mitch mcconnell and donald trump control her voice. she makes excuses for corruption, for criminality, for cruelty all while pretending while she's worried, concerned, hoping donald trump learns a lesson this time. he never does because she never stands up, never speaks out. never does what a maine leader should do. susan collins doesn't work for maine, she works for them and maine deserve as leader, not a trump stooge. it's time for susan collins to go. the lincoln project is responsible for the content of advertising. host: the ad by the lincoln group, the lincoln project, there were initially ads against the president. they've dived now into the senate races, what's your take? guest: this is probably the biggest changes in 2016. in 2016 we did see republicans deflect from the party. the republicans s

i keep looking for the margaret chase smiths, the great republican senator from maine who was the firstarthy. other than, you know, mitt romney and on a few votes a couple of others, there's been no consistent willingness on the part of the people that should be not only standing up for facts and evidence and against the kind of chaos that is generated by trump. they just don't seem willing. i don't know why. i know the politics of it. they think that, you know, that is not possible. it's in the current state of the republican party. but that is not a good enough explanation. because when russians are interfierce in our election, when they're putting bounties on american soldiers, to stay silent is to be complicit. that's what i don't understand. why do they want their place in history to be tarred by this apology for trump at every turn or the silence that marks them when they're asked a tough question. and a couple of them who i knew better, i traveled with and thought i understood where they were coming from, even when we disagreed, have just been so surprising to me. i don't underst

i'm not asking folks to be margaret chase smith every day or martin luther saying here i stand, galileoal. you don't need that level simply to say this candidate in 2016 and this president is in no way what the republican party, at its best, represents. so we're about to see a convention that is this fascinating combination of nepotism and narcissism wrapped up in nationalism. and i think the choice couldn't be clearer, right. last week was about you, this week is going to be about them. so what do you want in charge of your affairs? >> and it's -- it's just -- it's fascinating, bob costa, you certainly reported on national politics for some time for the post but you also followed conservative politics as well. there was a consensus among conservatives four years ago, five years ago we'll say, and that is we were the government of -- we were the party of small government. we were the party of at least -- at least we said we were, for balanced budgets, we fought for balanced budgets, we did at least when i was there, we supported a strong nato to stand against communist, the soviet union